2 free e-books: host a wordpress blog on your own site

by Todd Lucier on October 20, 2008

Beginner-friendly step-by-step instructions for hosting and using a wordpress.com blog at your www.mywebsite.com

I’ve met thousands of tourism operators and tourism board representatives over the past five years helping them sort out their Internet marketing strategy. For most tourism businesses, the best web site is a blog because it’s current, relevant, keyword-friendly, and easy to manage. These free pdf documents provide step-by-step instructions for using WordPress.com to create your own website from scratch. Have your own wordpress website and change or add content any time, for just $12 / year. These concise helpful books provide screen shots that show you where to click and what to do, every step of the way.

Benefits of Hosting your own WordPress Blog on www.yourwebsite.com

  • you own your domain name (ie. www.mywebsite.com)
  • easily controlled content management system with wordpress.com
  • instead of the generic http://wordpress.com/mywebsite send folks directly to www.mywebsite.com.
  • Start from scratch by searching for a domain name that you want, register it with wordpress.com and map it to www.mywebsite.com.
  • Begin creating new permanent web pages for your site and create new posts featuring text, photos, and video within an hour!
  • Do you twitter? Ask @sparklestarr or @toddlesby about how hosting a wordpress website workshop for beginners can help spur economic development in your community.

Creative Commons License
Get your own .com and How to Use WordPress by Natalie Lucier are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
Based on a work at www.tourismkeys.ca.

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  • thanks for your free ebook...
  • Hi Paul,
    You could host a blog on it's own domain or on your existing site under a new folder.... ie: hillsdalehouseinn.ca/blog

    To do it this way, you need to install wordpress from http://www.wordpress.org on your web server - a bit more effort.

    I might suggest removing the pointing domain on one of these domains and set it up to host your blog. We host our blog on its own domain at http://www.algonquincanada.com while keeping our website at http://www.northernedgealgonqu...

    btw, many people reading this comment may wonder about how to receive this content by email. It's easy, just put your email address in the box at right and click subscribe.... you'll get each post by email.
  • I was just looking at your latest email regarding Wordpress setup. Quick question – given that we already have our business website should we somehow link or associate our blog with this website when setting it up, i.e. we already have the domains hillsdalehouseinn.ca and hillsdalehouseinn.com registered and pointing to eachother.
  • If you are new to blogging, and you want to know you'll have support and help as you learn, start blogging at

    http://www.fishi.ca

    Created as a learning centre for Tourism business owners who have been thrust into Internet Marketing, Fishi.ca provides How-To Videos for Wordpress Blogs and a Trouble Ticket Help Desk where you can get help from the Fishi.ca Development Team.

    You certainly can make a blog work if you follow TourismKeys. Fishi.ca can help.

    Cheers all

    twitter.com/douglaslampi
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